According to information released by the commission, the Teesside plant will be located in the Tees Valley in northeast England and is scheduled to begin operations in July 2018. It will provide electricity to the national grid and heat to local customers. The project is expected to save approximately 32 million tons of carbon dioxide over its 30-year lifetime and supply about 2.1 TWh of electricity.

In a statement, the commission said it has found that U.K. plans to support the plant are in line with European Union aid rules. The aid given would be granted to the operator of the plant in the form of a variable premium above the market price for electricity to compensate for the higher costs of biomass energy.